Wilson v. Slatalla

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

RUETER, United States Magistrate Judge.

Presently before the court are defendants’ motion for summary judgment and plaintiffs response thereto. For the reasons that follow, this court orders that defendants’ motion for summary judgment be granted in part and denied in part.

Plaintiff, Allen Wilson, filed this claim against defendants Michelle Slatalla, Joshua Quittner, and HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. In his Complaint, plaintiff alleges that defendants Slatalla and Quittner made a number of defamatory statements about him in a nonfiction book entitled Masters of…